Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-06-02
KITCHEN SCRUBBiNG.


KITCHEN SCRUBBING.
Soft, Absorbent Rags the Best Material for
This Important Work.
Old flannel of all kinds should be
| kept for scrubbing and cleaning paint
undervests, drawers, skirts, all come
in for it. In England, where scrubbing
is still the glory of the poorer people,
cottagers vying with each other on the
color of their boards, there is coarse
gray flannel made, called "house fan
NEIL" expressly for the purpose. Next
| to flannel is old coarse soft linen, old
kitchen towels, crash, etc. So neces-
! sary to good cleaning is soft absorbent
material, that would almost rather
my maids destroy articles of far more
value than the scrub cloths, because
the supply is so limited, especially If
we give away our disused underclOth-
ing. For this reason keep the supply
under your own care, see that after
each using the cloth is dried and not
thrown away, until it is really used as
long as possible. Many girls will be
conscientious about towels and busters,
because they have a money value, but
cleaning cloths, being only rags, they
will consider may be thrown aside any
time and fresh ones taken. In addition
to the soft wet cloth, q dry rubber
(best made of old Russian crash that
has done service for round Or dish
toweD should be kept; scrubbing
brush of hard bristles is best, the soft
excelsior brushes are of little use except
for coarse paint, and brushes made OF
broom straw, although not entirely
satisfactory, are about the best one can
get when bristle brushes are not to be
had or are too expensive. Tables that
have been neglected may be bleached
by spreading on them over night
layer of wood ashes, made into NOR
tar-like paste with water; the next day
brush it off and scrub. The same paste
may be laid on floors when spotted with
grease. In cleaning floors never wet
too large space at once. If beyond
the comfortable range of the arm, there
is almost certain to be dark
circle when dry. showing where you
leave off each piece, because, being
out of easy reach, you have no power
to scrub well or wipe dry. Always in
using the drying cloth, rub it well be-
yond the space you are now cleaning
over. to the one last done. The use of
little washing soda or borax in the
water is excellent for boards, and if
they have been neglected, small
lump of lime in the water greatly
helps to make them white. After
tables are scrubbed attend to the sink,
put lump of washing soda as large as
an egg at least over the sink hole, and
pour kettle of boiling water over
every part of it, using your sink brush
to send it into all greasy parts. Wash.
the last thing before the floor, all fin
ger marks from the paint; also tbs
chairs if painted; the backs of them il
caned; the top of the flour barrel and
the windows. Be especially careful to
clean kitchen window stills; so many
things are put on them, they are more
apt to be soiled than any others. Need
less to say that floors must always be
swept before they are washed. To
clean oil cloth, do not scrub it unless
it has been badly cleaned many times,
when, with the fine corrugated surface
now usual, the dirt, or rather the dirty
water allowed to remain in it will have
grimmed it so that you will need to
use soft brush and scrub the way OF
the lines; but usually, warm water,
one wet and dry cloth are all that are
needed. Oil cloth and paint need the
wiping with coarse dry cloth as much
as boards, and will we'll repay the
extra trouble. Skim milk used in
place of water to clean oil cloth gives
it brightness and luster. Painted floors
must be treated just as oil cloth is. ]
have one thing more to say about the
kitchen sink. If you put in a lump Of
soda weighing half a pound or more
every day or two, you will have no
trouble with the drain pipe becoming
clogged with grease. So large piece
will dissolve very slowly, but all the
water that goes down will help to
cleanse instead of soil the pipe. When
ever you have kettle of boiling water
that you do not need at once. pour it
into the Catherine Olcen, TN Good
Housekeeping.
breakfast, CaEe-Two eUus two